Quality-based financial incentives in health care: can we improve quality by paying for it? [0.03%]
基于质量的医疗卫生激励机制：我们能够通过支付来提高医疗质量吗？
Douglas A Conrad,Lisa Perry
Douglas A Conrad
This article asks whether financial incentives can improve the quality of health care. A conceptual framework drawn from microeconomics, agency theory, behavioral economics, and cognitive psychology motivates a set of propositions about inc...
Kenneth W Kizer,R Adams Dudley
Kenneth W Kizer
The veterans health care system administered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was established after World War I to provide health care for veterans who suffered from conditions related to their military service. It has grown ...
The delivery of public health interventions via the Internet: actualizing their potential [0.03%]
通过互联网传递公共卫生干预措施：实现其潜力
Gary G Bennett,Russell E Glasgow
Gary G Bennett
The Internet increasingly serves as a platform for the delivery of public health interventions. The efficacy of Internet interventions has been demonstrated across a wide range of conditions. Much more work remains, however, to enhance the ...
John P Elder,Guadalupe X Ayala,Deborah Parra-Medina et al.
John P Elder et al.
With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts ...
Evidence-based public health: a fundamental concept for public health practice [0.03%]
基于证据的公共卫生：公共卫生实践的基本概念
Ross C Brownson,Jonathan E Fielding,Christopher M Maylahn
Ross C Brownson
Despite the many accomplishments of public health, a greater attention to evidence-based approaches is warranted. This article reviews the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH), on which formal discourse originated about a decade ...
C Hendricks Brown,Thomas R Ten Have,Booil Jo et al.
C Hendricks Brown et al.
In this article, we present a discussion of two general ways in which the traditional randomized trial can be modified or adapted in response to the data being collected. We use the term adaptive design to refer to a trial in which characte...
Health effects of arsenic and chromium in drinking water: recent human findings [0.03%]
饮水中的砷和铬的健康影响：近期的人体研究发现
Allan H Smith,Craig M Steinmaus
Allan H Smith
Even at high concentrations, arsenic-contaminated water is translucent, tasteless, and odorless. Yet almost every day, studies report a continually increasing plethora of toxic effects that have manifested in exposed populations throughout ...
Stephanie J London,Isabelle Romieu
Stephanie J London
Marked international differences in rates of asthma and allergies and the importance of family history highlight the primacy of interactions between genetic variation and the environment in asthma etiology. Environmental tobacco smoke (or s...
A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done [0.03%]
市场危机：食品营销如何导致儿童肥胖以及解决之道
Jennifer L Harris,Jennifer L Pomeranz,Tim Lobstein et al.
Jennifer L Harris et al.
Reducing food marketing to children has been proposed as one means for addressing the global crisis of childhood obesity, but significant social, legal, financial, and public perception barriers stand in the way. The scientific literature d...
Dahlia K Remler,Jessica Greene
Dahlia K Remler
Cost-sharing is a health care cost-containment technique in which health care services are partially paid for by patients out of pocket. Cost-sharing can reduce non-cost-effective care, but it can also undermine the financial protection and...